The Six Great Sacred Lands

Until, in the end, the Nine Yang Sect simply ceased sending any resources at all to the One Yang Sect.

Thereafter, the two factions gradually lost contact as well.

The One Yang Sect subsequently became a truly independent Nascent Soul Sect.

And those Nascent Soul Ancestors who controlled the One Yang Sect

thus became figures whose word carried absolute weight.

The One Yang Sect,

though not as powerful as the Nine Yang Sect,

still had everyone harboring the desire to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix.

What was more, it was already exceedingly difficult for Nascent Soul Cultivators to advance any further.

With the path of progress already cut off,

it was only natural for them to wish to live carefree lives that belonged solely to themselves.

As for the Nine Yang Sect, it would no longer endlessly funnel all manner of resources into the One Yang Sect.

It could be considered as having cast off a burden—

a burden that only made it give without receiving.

Of course,

although this matter had been brought about single-handedly by the Nine Yang Sect,

the One Yang Sect could not be said to have been entirely innocent either.

After all, if those Nascent Soul Cultivators within the One Yang Sect had not, after many years, displayed certain other ambitions,

the Nine Yang Sect might not have gradually reduced its resource support for the One Yang Sect afterward.

It could even be said

that the Nascent Soul Cultivators in the One Yang Sect who no longer felt any sense of belonging toward the Nine Yang Sect, and had even developed other ambitions,

were the fuse that set all this off.

As for the Nine Yang Sect, perhaps it truly had seen that the One Yang Sect